City Beautiful movement urged for Mobile and region
The writer urges Mobile and nearby communities to adopt the Birmingham inspired City Beautiful plan. She highlights Arbor Day efforts, plantings of trees and shrubs, and civic duties like trimming trees, replacing dead ones, grooming sidewalks, and engaging women in azalea planting. The Alabama Beautiful initiative seeks state preservation of natural beauty and improved stations and cemeteries.
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Jim “Webb
Middletons
Government Street
Birmingham
Arbor Day
City Beautiful Movement
Mobile
Patriodic
Powell School
Val
Caro Cameron
Savannan
City Beautiful Department
P. J. Berckmanns
Augusta
Department of Civics of the
Federation
Alabama Beautiful Idea
Winifred Bryan Lane
Sermons at Broad Street Presbyterian Church
At Broad Street Presbyterian Church Rev. P H Hensley preaches Sunday at 11 00 am on Sin Righteousness and Judgment and again at 7 30 pm on Efficient Grace with the text By the Grace of God I Am What I Am.
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Broad Street Presbyterian Church
P. H. Hensley
Attire Description From Historic Fashion Item
Description details a dark blue taffeta basque with velvet panels, a double tiered skirt, white organdy collar and vest, and a black velvet picture hat with ribbon streamers under the chin.
Kaiserhof Palm Garden Opens Tonight in Mobile
Pete Hamel opens the Kaiserhof Palm Garden at 7 30 with a five piece orchestra. Dutch lunches and liquid refreshments will be served in a transformed Orpheum theatre venue now a palm garden. The new venue aims to provide a pleasant lunching and dancing space for Mobile residents.
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Pete Hamel
Kaiserhof Palm Garden
Orpheum
UZAR TAKES TARNOV VICTORIES CONTINUE
London dispatch reports a Morning Post view that Russia mobilized invasion forces to attack Turkey with columns advancing toward Erzerum from three fronts. A major Polish frontier battle is developing as Germany shifts troops from East Prussia to ease pressure there.
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Vienna
Galicia
Balkan
London
Petrograd
Morning Post
Russia
Erzerum
Deve- Boyun
Poland
East Prussia
Indian inventor patents wagon lever to curb runaway horses
An Indian man secures a patent for a lever attached to a wagon wheel. A hitching strap tied to the lever pulls backward to stop a horse that starts to run. The device aims to prevent runaway incidents and protect riders and livestock.
Allies Press West Front as German Offensives Stall
British reports describe heavy artillery duels along the western line with German infantry attacks repelled near Ypres and Dixmude possibly retaken by Allies. Berlin claims success on the western front while German experts note French replacements for Belgian troops and Russian advances worry military writers. Submarine threat near Dover reportedly eased by chain-dragging tactics along the Channel.
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Lys
Bixschoote
Ypres
Dixmude
Berlin
Nieuport
Dover
Allies Hold Line After Dixmude Loss in Fierce Front Clash
Paris dispatch notes a 100 mile Allied front from sea to Somme under continual attack for three weeks. Dixmude fell two days earlier but the line remained unbroken amid grim fighting. Georges Clemenceau and General Bonnal express cautious optimism over time, ground gained, and anticipated German fatigue.
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Paris
Somme
Dixmude
Germany
Georges Clemenceau
Bonnal
Flanders
Fifth District Convention Postponed Due to Weather
The Fifth District convention of the Mobile County Sunday School Association, scheduled for Friday night at the First Baptist Church, was postponed. President H. M. Walker urged delaying the meeting until next Friday as only a few members were present.
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Canve
Mobile County Sunday Sc Association
First Baptist Church
H. M. Walker
Express Co to Take Charity Goods for War Relief
Martin Holbrook, local agent of Southern Express Co at Chattanooga Tenn, authorized by the traffic department to receive and forward charity shipments at two thirds tariff. Items must weigh under 100 pounds and be addressed to Red Cross representatives or war relief associations of various foreign countries.
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Martin Holbrook
Southern Express Company
Southern Ex Company
Chattanooga
Tenn
Cardui credited by Virginia woman for relief from ailments
Mrs. Owen F. Wells of Jonesville Virginia writes she was tormented by womanly troubles and pain but after using Cardui she feels like a new person. She says childbirth was less painful and urges others to try Cardui based on many similar testimonials statewide and beyond.
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Jonesville
Cardui
Owen F. Wells
Cardus
Cardul
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Essanay
Kid” Lubin
Alice Joyce
Conception Street
Dauphin
Law Supreme Effort
Fifth District
Cane
Gulf City Dye Works
S. Royal
Mobile Business Women's Club
Alma Moore
Miss, Kennedy
Miss Man
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